![]() ![]() ![]() These two artifacts have come to seem to me suggestive emblems of the appeal of fantasy in our time.” In both cases the shards held together with borrowed materials and makeshift ingenuity: a crude frame and Elmer’s glue, the worn structure of romance and ponderous philological apparatus. In both the window and the trilogy: art built out of a heap of cultural trash, something new from something used, a sense of wholeness barely removed from absurdity. Humpty-Dumpty miraculously reassembled, with all the cracks showing. ![]() Like the window, The Lord of the Rings is essentially a re-creation, a synthesis of rejected myths and images into a fragile new composition. I think of Tolkien’s fantasy world, fabricated out of shattered myths which we, as ‘postmoderns,’ ought no longer to believe in. “As I begin writing I think of a stained-glass window submitted as a student project for a course in fantasy literature. ![]()
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